Author Archives: James Peters

KAMLOOPS - A new report from the B.C. Coroners Service shows the province's illicit drug overdose crisis reaching an unprecedented height.B.C. set records in each of the last two months of 2021 for th...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops fire crews have put out three fires at three different vacant buildings within a week. Two of those fires took place over this weekend.Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) Fire Chief Steve R...

VICTORIA - The latest labour market outlook for British Columbia shows nearly 80 per cent of job openings over the next decade will require some level of post-secondary education, reflecting the chang...

MERRITT, B.C. - A second Merritt facility is in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak.Interior Health says an outbreak was declared at Nicola Meadows, an assisted living facility, on Friday (Feb. 4).The ot...

KAMLOOPS - A report coming to the Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education next week shows the extent to which various illnesses have affected attendance so far in 2022.The report from Sup...

MERRITT, B.C. - Further pandemic supports are coming for B.C. students and schools, with 300,000 rapid antigen test kits to be delivered in phases.The first phase will be rural and remote school distr...

KAMLOOPS - An 18-year-old man who was found dead in a Tk'emlups parking lot last Saturday (Jan. 29) was a Grade 12 student at Sa-Hali Secondary School.In a news release issued Thursday, Kamloops RCMP ...

MERRITT, B.C. - As the fallout from Wednesday's move by federal Conservative MPs to remove Erin O'Toole from leadership continues to filter out, names will begin to surface regarding potential new lea...

KAMLOOPS -Teens and pre-teens, aged 12 to 17, are now eligible for a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine in British Columbia.With the highly contagious Omicron variant circulating, Interior Health says...